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GILLIAN Anderson and Lily James, who will (as this page was first to report) star in a stage version of the classic film All About Eve, directed by Ivo van Hove.
Producers Sonia Friedman and Fox Stage Productions officially confirmed my exclusives yesterday.
The movie starred Bette Davis as Margo Channing — a stage goddess — and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an unknown out to topple her.
Monica Dolan has been cast to play Karen (Margo’s best friend) who’s married to theatre producer Lloyd Richards, who will be played by Rhashan Stone. Sheila Reid will play Birdie, Margo’s no-nonsense dresser.
Van Hove adapts Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s screenplay, and the theatre show will feature one of the most famous lines in cinema history. It’s uttered by Margo at a cocktail party she’s hosting: ‘Fasten your seatbelts — it’s going to be a bumpy night.’
The show will run at the Noel Coward Theatre from February 2 for 14 weeks. Tickets are on pre-sale from next Wednesday and for general purchase from Friday.
Visit AllAboutEvePlay.com for more details. David Suchet, Brendan Coyle, adrian Lukis and Sara Stewart, who are in discussions about the possibility of transferring the Theatre Royal, Bath production of arthur Miller’s The Price to Wyndham’s Theatre in early February.
Jonathan Church’s highly praised revival is about two estranged brothers (Coyle and Lukis) and their dead parents’ effects. Suchet plays Gregory Solomon, the savvy dealer who comes to appraise the legacy.
However, the cast’s availability has to be sorted before producers can sign on to Wyndham’s. DOMINIC West, who will play the doctor who treats Joe Gilgun’s Vinnie in the TV comedy Brassic, which starts filming in Manchester on Monday, for Sky and David Livingstone’s Calamity Films. Brassic will be broadcast next year.
You can also see West — who’s good opposite a terrific Keira Knightley — in Colette, which will be shown on October 11 at the BFI London Film Festival.